Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Oct 29-Nov 4
Once a week, we gather stories about the media business, journalism, writing, publishing, and freelancing—with a Canadian focus—and share them in Off the Wire. Who needs a water cooler?
From Canada:
- Money Smarts: Estimating and Negotiating — event review [PWAC Toronto]
- 10 tips for the savvy environmental journalist [J-Source]
- Journalist fights back against Furlong media ‘onslaught’ [J-Source]
- Ten words to cut from your writing [Globe & Mail]
- Furlong drops suit against Georgia Straight [J-Source]
- Tyee has a lofty goal: to raise $100,000, start covering more national stories [Canadian Mags]
- Chris Benjamin and Paul Webster win 2013 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards [J-Source]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- Why high demand freelancers need personal blogs [Freelance Strategist]
- Was Condé Nast Right to Nix Their Internships? [Mediabistro]
- Freelancers, Don’t Die of Exposure [Freelancers Union]
- A New Website Aims To ‘Scratch’ The Surface of The Freelance Economy [Observer] (via @mediabistro)
- 4 things all freelancers can learn from Bill Watterson [Freelancers Union]
- When should a young writer write for free? [Salon]
- Work for free if you want to, but don’t work for nothing [Metamedia] (via @freelance_hacks)
- What are you worth? A Freelancer’s Guide to Pricing [Desk Mag] (via @freelancersu)
- Slaves of the Internet, Unite! [The New York Times]
This week on Story Board:
- The Born Freelancer on Writing a Radio Play: It seems appropriate to spend a post on writing radio plays during the very week that marks the 75th anniversary of the initial broadcast of radio’s most infamous radio play, “The War of the Worlds” starring and directed by the late, great Orson Welles…
- Portfolio options for freelancers: How you present your work online can go a long way to helping you land your next job. There are now several online options that allow you to create beautiful presentations of your work, for no cost….
Spot a story you think we should include in next week’s Off the Wire? Email the link to editor@thestoryboard.ca or tweet us at @storyboard_ca.
Posted on November 4, 2013 at 9:05 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
